Sebastian Spreng

Last updated
Sebastian Spreng
Sebastian spreng miami 2a.jpg
Sebastian Spreng 2008
Born (1956-04-06) April 6, 1956 (age 68)
Nationality Argentine
Known for Painting, music, stage designer, opera, journalism, diarist
Delicate Balance Installation/Private Collection Sebastian Spreng, Delicate balance.JPG
Delicate Balance Installation/Private Collection

Sebastian Spreng (born April 6, 1956) is an Argentine-born American visual artist and music journalist. He is a self-taught artist. He lives in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida. [1]

Contents

Biography

Sebastian Spreng was born on April 6, 1956, in Esperanza, Santa Fe in Argentina. [1] In 1987, he settled in Miami, Florida and has been a vital presence in the Florida art scene. [1] [2]

His awards include the Hortt Competition at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and the 1995 Personal Achievement Award from the Muscular Dystrophy Association for the State of Florida, since earlier childhood, Spreng suffers from muscular dystrophy. [3]

In 1994, he was commissioned by Metro-Dade Art In Public Places to create a permanent exhibition at the Miami-Dade Government Center. [3]

In 2012, he was selected as one of the "100 Latinos of Miami", along other personalities, [4] and as the 2013 Visual Artist of the 11th Edition of the Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival in Atherton, California. [5]

Since 2015 he works in IPad drawings presenting exhibitions totally dedicated to digital art in Miami, [6] Santa Fe, and Panama. The series Das Lied von der Erde, [7] based in Gustav Mahler song cycle comprised more than twenty Ipad drawings in several sizes.

In 2017 was named "Knight Champion of the Arts" by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation [8] [9] and his works exhibited at the Knight Hall in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

At the Lowe Art Museum an exhibition about the destruction of Dresden consisting in iPad drawings printed on aluminum took place between March and September 2018. [10] [11]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bay Harbor Islands, Florida</span> Town in Florida

Bay Harbor Islands is a town in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The city is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. It is separated from the mainland by Biscayne Bay. The population was 5,922 at the 2020 US census.

Richard Theodore Titlebaum was a writer, artist, antiquarian book collector and literature professor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami</span> Art museum in Florida, United States

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is a collecting museum located in North Miami, Florida. The 23,000-square-foot (2,100 m2) building was designed by the architecture firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, New York City.

Cooper is an American artist known for sculptures and assemblages He lives and works in Alaska.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pérez Art Museum Miami</span> Art museum in Miami, Florida

The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)—officially known as the Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County—is a contemporary art museum that relocated in 2013 to the Museum Park in Downtown Miami, Florida. Founded in 1984 as the Center for the Fine Arts, it became known as the Miami Art Museum from 1996 until it was renamed in 2013 upon the opening of its new building designed by Herzog & de Meuron at 1103 Biscayne Boulevard. PAMM, along with the $275 million Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science and a city park which are being built in the area with completion in 2017, is part of the 20-acre Museum Park.

Lydia Rubio is a Cuban-American artist, born in Havana (1946). After attending the University of Florida and Universita degli Studi di Firenze, she obtained a Master's in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she pursued visual studies with Rudolf Arnheim.

Emilio Falero is a Cuban Fine Arts painter residing in Florida.

César E. Trasobares, is a Cuban-American artist specializing in Collage, Installation, and Performance.

Rubén Torres Llorca is a Cuban artist specializing in painting, drawing, sculpture, collages, and photography. He studied from 1972 to 1976 at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in Havana and from 1976 to 1981, studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), also in Havana. Torres resided in Mexico City, Mexico, from 1990 to 1993 and has resided in Miami, Florida, since 1993.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Humberto Calzada</span> Cuban-American painter

Humberto Calzada is a Cuban-American artist living in Miami, Florida, since 1960.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sherri Tan</span> American figurative artist

Sherri Tan is an American figurative artist whose work includes collage, sculpture, photography, books and multimedia. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the US including the Bass Museum of Art, Miami; the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Ft. Lauderdale; Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, NY; Coral Spring Museum of Art, Brevard Museum, Polk Museum, Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh; Center for Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach; and Rosenwald Gallery, University of Pennsylvania. Tan has also been active in designing large-scale sets and artwork for opera and multimedia works including settings for a touring stage production of Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde presented in the US and China and artworks for composer Thomas Sleeper's operas "Small Change", "River of Shifting Sands" and "The Sisters Antipodes". Larry Budmen of the South Florida Classical Review writes of Tan's sets for a production of Orpheus: "Sherri Tan's striking scenic design mixes painting, photography and sculpture, forming a flexible playing space that spills out into the aisles of the small venue. Contemporary costumes emphasized the timelessness of the tale."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ruth W. Greenfield</span> American concert pianist and teacher (1923–2023)

Ruth Miriam Greenfield was an American concert pianist and teacher who, through music, broke racial barriers and brought together black and white students, taught by black and white teachers. This pioneering color-blind approach, considered scandalous at the time, was a breath of fresh air in the then-segregated society.

José María Mijares was a Cuban contemporary visual artist. He began drawing in his adolescent years and entered the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts on a scholarship at the age of 16. His greatest influences were the artists of the "Havana School": Carlos Enríquez, René Portocarrero, Cundo Bermúdez, as well as his professors, most notable being modernist painter Fidelio Ponce. He was also a part of the influential group, Los Diez Pintores Concretos, or as they are usually referred to, Los Diez. Although the group had a relatively short life, 1959–1961, and exhibited together only a few times, they remain an important part of Cuba's art history especially in the pre-Castro years and leading up to the revolution. He left Cuba in 1968, resigning his teaching position at the academy when Fidel Castro came into power. Based in Miami, he continued to be a prolific painter and until his death in 2004, at the age of 82.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rafael Consuegra</span> Cuban-American artist (1941–2021)

Rafael Consuegra was a Cuban-born American sculptor and ceramist who worked in the United States and Europe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Juan Gonzalez (artist)</span> Cuban-American painter

Juan González was an important twentieth-century Cuban-American painter who rose to international fame in the 1970s and remained active until his death in the 1990s. Born in Cuba, González launched his art career in South Florida during the early 1970s and quickly gained recognition in New York City, where he subsequently relocated in 1972. While in New York González won several fine art awards, including the National Endowment of the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts grant, and the Cintas Fellowship. González's art known is for its distinctive hyperrealism and magical realism elements delivered in a highly personal style with symbolic overtones. His work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States as well as internationally in Europe, Latin America, and Japan. He is included in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Carnegie Museum of Art, and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Elena Presser is an Argentine artist who focuses on keyboard pieces, specifically on Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations. Her artwork is her interpretation of classical music and is defined with shapes and symbols within her artwork. She also includes religious notions affiliated with the high quality of music. She also believes that music is unique to everyone, therefore she decides to primarily include it in her art.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Agustín Fernández (artist)</span> Cuban painter, sculptor, and multimedia artist

Agustín Fernández was a Cuban painter, sculptor, and multimedia artist. Although he was born in Cuba, he spent the majority of his career outside of Cuba, and produced art in Havana, Paris, San Juan, and New York.

Miguel Jorge (1928–1984), also known as “Micky” Jorge, was a Cuban artist who was influential in the establishment of South Florida's early Latin American art market in the Greater Miami area from the 1960s through the 1980s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Miguel Rodez</span> Cuban artist

Miguel Rodez is a Cuban born contemporary visual artist, curator, and former attorney who has resided in the United States since 1969. Artistically, Rodez is known for his textured luminescent paintings and his Minimalist-Dadaist sculptures. Among his most displayed works are Custom-made Paradise, his round portrait of Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí from Rodez’s XX Century Masters series, and the sensual kinetic giant inflatable sculpture Lucky Link from his Imagine Liberation series. He has written several published articles on art, law, and community issues and has been an Editor in Chief for law magazines and publications.

Margarita Cano was a Cuban-American artist, curator, scholar, former liaison of the Miami-Dade Public Library System and Center for the Fine Arts, and former Head of Community Relations for the Miami-Dade Public Library System. She was a significant contributor to the development of the Latin American art market of South Florida as a leading figure in the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County public library systems. Cano is responsible for launching the permanent art collection of the Miami-Dade County Library System as well as spearheading several milestone Miami art and literary events of the 1980s, such as Surrounded Islands, The Miami Generation exhibition, and the Miami Book Fair.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Sebastian Spreng Biography". Artnet.com. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  2. "Sebastian Spreng - Handmade Horizons and Songs". Artpulse Magazine. 2009. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  3. 1 2 Tschida, Anne (May 13, 2011). "Sebastian Spreng's lively produce". Knight Foundation. Retrieved 2021-01-18. commissioned to create a public work for Miami-Dade Art in Public Places, a tribute he created for the "American with Disabilities Trailblazers." Spreng has muscular dystrophy
  4. "Listado 100 Latinos Miami 2011-2012". 100latinos.com. 2011. Archived from the original on 2013-05-02. Retrieved 2012-10-31.
  5. "Music@Menlo |". musicatmenlo.org. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  6. Chuchla, Ross (March 27, 2015). "A Collaboration of Music and Art". SeraphicFire.org. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  7. mahler's das lied von der erde…a song for the earth (PDF). 2015.
  8. "On its 10th anniversary, Knight Arts Challenge Miami funds 43 projects with $2.5 million". Knight Foundation. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  9. Wooldridge, Jane (December 4, 2017). "Knight Arts Challenge names these artists — and South Florida — winners". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2018-03-18. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
  10. "Sebastian Spreng: DRESDEN". www.lowe.miami.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-05-28.
  11. Herrera, Adriana (May 17, 2018). "Sebastian Spreng: Cantos para exorcisar la catastrofe" . El Nuevo Herald (in Spanish).